Bantwal : Python which attacked 11 yr old Vaishakh finally trapped by locals

Mangalore Today News Network

Bantwal, Oct 20, 2016: The python  which had recently attacked   11 year old Vaishakh at Sajipa village in the taluk, but had to beat a hasty retreat when the boy had tried to crush its face with a stone even as it curled over his body, has been  caught by locals  on the evening of October 19  and  shifted to the Pilikula Nisargadhama at Vamanjoor in Mangaluru.

 

Meanwhile, a few locals namely Sattar, Balakrishna and Jagadish Kudur who were injured  in their effort to trap the python have been admitted to a hospital.

It has been gathered that the python was first spotted by  Jagadish, a relative of Vaishakh when he had been to attend a house warming ceremony on  Wednesday evening. Though he tried to trap it using the mat in his autorickshaw, it was a futile exercise and the python hit him with its hood.  Later  Balakrishna and Sattar who were passing that way   too joined and  caught  hold of the  python.